Re: How does packet capture interact with

[Robert Burgess <burgess () systems cs cornell edu>]

> you somehow have to make sure that the kernel doesn't deal with packets
> you want to take care of. If you don't, it will reset TCP connections
> and reply with ICMP port unreachable messages to UDP datagrams etc.

Yes, that is a problem; I was handling it by having the OS firewall
(whatever it is) drop those packets I intend to handle.  In my application
I can get away with leaving that firewall setup to an administrator so
my code can be OS-independent.

Robert.
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